Motivational Quotes

Courage

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.